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Originally Posted by plaaynde
What would have happened if USA had become fascist in the 30´s? Roosevelt was at least a "good guy". Churchill had the English Channel speaking for him (water, not allowing blizkrieg with tanks), but some credit has to be given to him too, for saving Europe, imo.
Churchill did have the channel as moat around the castle walls. But didn't need anyone speaking for him. That man could talk anybody into anything. Here's tiny England all alone, at war with this megalithic monster and terrible tank producer. Plus all of Germany's conquerees and
their conscripts and production capacity. It's only a matter of time before that channel begins looking like a creek. Then here's ravaged, bombed to ashes, England, with two things going for them. Their hope for survival lies in radar, and Churchhill.
'We will fight them in the streets. We will fight them on the seas. We will fight them on the beaches and in the air. And we will never, ever give up!' (paraphrased)
And the classic:"Never have so many owed so much to so few."
* England has not been conquered by a foreign invader since William the Conqueror in 1066. (ironically William I was from Normandy)
When I first became interested in WWII. I'd listen to recordings of his speeches and shiver. I can't imagine anyone ever making a more stirring, rouse them to arms (!) speech. I doubt not, the hearts and minds of all England belonged to Churchill in those terrible days. He bade those boys gather courage and launch aircraft into bullet blazen skies, knowing he was sending them to thier death. If England had fallen it might have been the tipping point that made the war unwinable for us.
Had America gone fascist in the 30's we'd be speaking German by now. It could've happened. There were several pro-nazi groups around. And Englands King Edward VIII was a fascist sympathizer. It's not all that incredible to contemplate. Lucky for us, King Edward married an american divorcee and abdicated the crown, leaving it to his stuttering brother King George VI. (those damn americans! always causing trouble) I can't imagine a nazified America. There would've been too much resistance. (and too many privately owned guns) for it to last. We're not the type to go lightly, we'd have rebelled, and kicked those fascists the hell back to Germany.. Bloody Saxons.